Film Pittsburgh

NOW IS THE TIME, indie filmmakers! 🎬

Submit your project to the 2026 Three Rivers Film Festival: the #3 Film Festival in the country according to USA TODAY readers and one of MovieMaker Magazine's top 50 Film Festivals worth the entry fee.

We can't wait to see what you've made. Find all the info on FilmFreeway!

We’re partnering with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to present Mad About the Movies - a special one-night-only performance on Thursday, July 16.

🍿 Grab your popcorn and settle in to hear iconic scores from Apocalypse Now, Death in Venice, Star Wars, A Clockwork Orange, Indiana Jones, and more, performed LIVE by the PSO.

With the code FILMPGH10, your ticket is just $10. Save your seat today!

🎫 https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/promotion/apply?promotion_code=FILMPGH10

Summer in Pittsburgh means Cinema In The Park is back! 📽️ Here are a few standouts to add to your calendar:

HAMNET (2025)
Nominated for 8 Oscars, HAMNET is the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
📅 June 10 at Flagstaff Hill
📅 June 13 at Riverview Park

THE WIZ (1978)
Diana Ross stars in this classic musical retelling of the Wizard of Oz.
📅 June 15 at Banksville Park
📅 June 16 at Ormsby Park
📅 June 18 at Brookline Memorial Park
📅 June 20 at Grandview Park

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME (2025)
In Wes Anderson’s latest, wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate.
📅 July 22 at Schenley Plaza
📅 July 25 at Riverview Park

ReelAbilities Pittsburgh SUMMER SHORTS
A special screening of curated shorts selected by Film Pittsburgh in collaboration with representatives and advocates for Pittsburgh's disabled community. Full list of shorts to be announced soon!
📅 July 26 at Schenley Plaza

City of Pittsburgh Office of Special Events has all the details and the full schedule of movies for the whole family!

June Spotlight 💡 Hollywood is wholly weird in this inescapably Lynchian, provocative debut short by Carnegie Mellon University alum Antonio Marziale. Strap in for fifteen fantastical minutes of offbeat, twisty pleasure, as two q***r sex-worker starlets dare to take on a lecherous film-industry executive and marvelously remake cinema for themselves. Happy Pride Month.

STARF**KERS screened at the Three Rivers Film Festival in 2022. It was also an Official Selection of Sundance, Berlinale, & Telluride Film Festival.

Watch now ▶️ FilmPittsburgh.org/Spotlight

Fresh off the presses: Three Rivers Film Festival is one of MovieMaker Magazine's 50 Film Festivals worth the entry fee in 2026!

📰: https://www.moviemaker.com/50-film-festivals-worth-the-entry-fee-2026/

Calling all Pittsburgh filmmakers! 📞 Our friends at Jump Cut PGH are accepting submissions for their annual themed shorts contest. This year's theme is MOON.

Submissions can be narrative, documentary, experimental or animated, but must be under four minutes and feature the moon as a thematic element. 🌕

Submit your short by June 15th! 📽️ www.jumpcutpgh.org/film-kitchen

This could be you. ⬇️ Submissions to the 2026 Three Rivers Film Festival are OPEN to all independent filmmakers!

If you submit your film by May 31, you'll be right on time.

For feature films: filmfreeway.com/PittsburghShorts
For shorts & scripts: filmfreeway.com/PittsburghShorts

Congratulations to our friends at Wall-to-Wall Studios Inc. on their MANY wins at the American Advertising Awards, including a Silver ADDY for their work on the Three Rivers Film Festival 2025 branding! 👏

We're thankful for many years of creative collaboration with this team. Take a look down memory lane with us!

That's a wrap on 2026! 🎬 We laughed, we cried, we schmoozed, and we learned. 🩵 Thank you to everyone who joined us for this celebration of independent Jewish cinema, to the talented filmmakers who participated, and to all of our guest speakers.

We’ll see you in November for the Three Rivers Film Festival!

Photos by Those In Motion Photography

The votes are in! We counted every ballot, and we’re thrilled to announce the Audience Award Winners of JFilm 2026, chosen by you!

🏆 Best Documentary Feature - tie!
HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC – A MOTHER'S LEGACY
"STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE!"

🏆 Best Narrative Feature
ONCE UPON MY MOTHER

🏆 Harvey Sloan Award for Best Short Film
BESHERT

Thanks to our audience members who took the time to rate our films in theaters and virtually. We’ll see you in November for the Three Rivers Film Festival this November 5-15!